Steynian 340

It’s The Revolution, Stupid

~ HERE’S THE THING: Communism is not dead, and it’s not over there. Radical Marxist theory is the operating in the academy, in ordinary politics, community organizing, speech codes, heyheyhoho protests, and the soft-fascism arising from the 1960s cultural and sexual revolution.

Remember: doctrinaire Communism is about the big revolution, leading to a golden age of equality, unicorns, and suchlike. In order to smoh the way to the golden age, all serious obstacles must be bulldozed and re-engineered to be part of the revolution. For example: religion– God is imaginary, religion and opiate. The family: a separate power & authority from the state will slow things down, so children are taken away as soon as possible from their breeders. Sexuality- monogamy strengthens families and children.. see above. Schools & universities: can provide education, reasons why radical activism isn’t the be-all, end all. Radicalize the curriculum, and professors. Makes usre conservatives are ousted, punished, converted. Legal tradition and custom interfere with political and social engineering– courts must be turned into activist sources of the new society, laws, and family.

We’ve spent a lot of time on this website detailing the outrages and lunacy of the Canadian so-called “Human Rights” establishment as it now stands. People like Jennifer Lynch and Barbara Hall and Krista Daley are precisely interested in a parallel legal system, a quasi-judicial parallel justice, and a substitute rationale for civil rights and citizenship, with themselves as the commissars, the radical re-interpreters of human rights and freedoms in Canada, and each of her provinces. Why? Socialist paradise– utopia– right ahead! Almost there! Down with the haters, homophobes, racists, fundamentalists, and suchlike rabble!

Mr. Yes We Can is all about a ‘New America’. With a state-run economy, the President attacking individual critics, setting up a government funded parallel political system (via ACORN), with a radical reinterpretation of the Constitution as ‘guidelines’ and not the law of the land. The power devolves to the Oval Office and his inner circle: whatever that might be, it’s not America.

What is it? An Americanized and updated form of the Marxist promised golden age, if only… [fill in the institution or law or tradition to be gutted here].

It’s all the same octopus.. different tentacles.

We don’t need a new McCarthyism, which was after all a moderate-left attack on the hard left– we need to elect politicians who will respect the law and politics; we need to defund the HRCs and such radical groups, who use tax-payers money to undercut the law, family, religion, freedoms, whatever is an obstacle to their radical re-engineering of everything they can get their hands on.

Don’t be distracted by the new buzz-words of the new Marxism: dialogue, nurture, process, struggle, issues, challenge, sharing, diversity, progress, tolerance: these are codewords which turn reason and justice on their heads, to exercise social and thought-control on the masses. Buzz, buzz, buzz.

This is one of the most important posts I’ve written: it ties together disparate phenomena and people in a way that clarifies and exposes what’s going on. It’s not a conspiracy, because it’s all out in the open. They are here, they are busy, they consider anybody against them to be an enemy, an obstacle to the utopia just around the corner. ~

Jihadist Islam is not unlike an opportunistic infection, or a parasite. Any breach, any exposure, any long-term connection, and it will seek to have its way with you. Incremental world domination is fine: first your freedoms, then your laws, then your religion, then your very physical safety and private thought is under the suffocating blanket. After all, Islam is (like all totalitarianisms) all-embracing, all inclusive, and jealous of any competition.

This would be the international top-down effort and counterpart to taking on Steyn, Wilders, Levant, and Hirsi Ali and others on the local and national levels: all aimed towards giving Islam and Muslims a privileged place at any table, in any debate, under any law. This is nothing other than making a irrational religious assertion and triumphant Islamist wish to be the policy of the UN, international courts, and as a hoped-for trickle-down precedent for national and local law and policy. Islam is better, special, and needs limo-treatment.

The Jihad is always busy; they have a programme; they beaver away like unseen rust on your car, only coming out into the open when the situation is far advanced.

Canada: It’s ours to lose. The World: It’s ours to lose. ~

~ NEVER BEEN to one, but I can understand the attraction: those dress-up SciFi Cons, or Mediaeval/ Renaissance Faires with archery and sword-fighting, lute and crumhorns. Why? Well, I’m a bit nerdy and all, but there’s rather more to it.

In the modern ‘scientific’ banishment of imagination, music, beauty, truth, poetry, religion, spiritual longing, and all suchlike to the realm of private ‘mere’ feeling and preference, it entirely impoverishes the human spirit, and divides the soul. We are composite, complex creatures, and the arid and sterile ‘scientific’ as alone truth and ‘verifiable’ is, of course, itself a theory. That inhuman and dehumanizing theory has led to ‘scientific’ fascism, eugenics, race-law, sterilization by law, government euthanasia, Stalin’s 5-year plans, Mao’s mass-farming, and a host of other horrors and idiocies since the French Revolution.

If, however, beauty, the arts, spirituality, literature, remembrance of past custom, and all the rest are in fact means of knowing and appropriating truth (in fullness), then we must teach and use and allow such means in society, culture, and religion as means of living a full humanity. In that sense, Handel’s Messiah or a Mass-setting by Mozart are a more and complete perception and receiving of truth that whatever might be seen through an electron microscope, or measured in a beaker. In that sense, the ‘Renaissance Man’ Leonardo was a more complete and admirable human being, scientist, artist, and Christian, than someone with a degree in advanced genetic manipulation, whose main cultural sustenance is cable or satellite TV, Stephen King novels, and the like.

No, I won’t be dressing anytime soon in a Vader outfit or mediaeval jester’s get up– but that sort of thing has a higher logic than the theories of positivist philosophy and materialist science can offer men and women in terms of life, truth, goodness, love, and the entirety of human being and nature.

I’m not sure if I’ve expressed that well, but it’s a second stab on the topic of truth, beauty, and goodness and the fulfilment of human nature.

All comments and criticisms most welcome. ~

Scots Wha’ Hae’

~ AS YOU STEYNIANS WILL KNOW, Teh Binks is proud of his part-Scots heritage, his clan (Cameron), and Scottish history (especially the Wallace-Bruce years). No, I won’t dirk a MacIntosh for all their past enormities against the Camerons, nor do I think Scots or Scotland sinless folk in a golden land. But it’s part of me, and I of it.

I’ve been watching the not entirely useless BBC History of Scotland, and enjoying the sights and reenactments of the history I’ve read via Nigel Tranter, Richard Oram, and others. Nasty old Edward I Longshanks began a war of near-genocide against the Scots, earning him the name “Hammer of The Scots”.. it’s inscribed on his tomb in Latin.

Unlike the depiction of him in the movie Braveheart, William Wallace [AD 1272-1305] was not poor, clean-shaven, short, occasionally partly blue, a highlander, or a kilt-wearer. He was a well educated young man, a former novice monk, and spoke (and wrote) in several languages. The name ‘Wallace’ itself denotes Welsh ancestry; and surviving archaeological evidence suggests his family were well-to-do small nobility, with their own fortified farm and surrounding lands. Nonetheless, thank God for Mel Gibson’s movie, because it made it OK to glory in Scotland and her past again, after so many years of shame, cultural repression, and second-hand status.

Before the famous Battle of Stirling, September 11th, 1297, the 25-year old Wallace told the English messengers who demanded that the outmatched Scots surrender “Go back and tell your people, that we have not come for the benefit of peace, but to do battle to liberate ourselves, and our kingdom. Let them come to us, and we will prove this in their very beards.” Tough stuff. But like other great Mediaeval figures, William Wallace was no shrinking violet, no bespectacled prof in a world of ideas and meetings, no bureaucrat ordering the suffering of others from a distance.

Like Longshanks himself, Wallace was a complete man of his time: warrior, scholar, general, man of faith. Wallace’s part-contemporary the poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri of Florence [AD 1265-1321] was another in the same mold. So were many of the leaders in Greek’s golden age: warriors, thinkers, world-changers.

At Stirling, the arrogant English learned at the hand of young William Wallace and the largely Scots peasant-army how to die in large numbers. That one day, England lost 5000 men at arms, and 100 knights– not to mention captive nobles for ransom. There’s lots of books on The Wallace: Nigel Tranter’s is the best, but others are also worthwhile. For the poetically-minded, one of the primary historical sources ahs been reprinted: Blind Harry’s Wallace. The minstrel Blin’ Harry [1440-1493] gathered all the stories and history about Wallace into an amazing epic poem.

In pondering Wallace and such, it’s the courage and will and pride of a people– their longing for justice and their own destiny– that allows them to survive, thrive, and to resist in the face of the enemy. The real question facing people in the West, as Mark Steyn has reminded us again and again, is whether we believe in ourselves, that we have something worth living and defending and passing on, or not.

“It’s often said that Canadians aren’t boisterous about their patriotism, not the way Americans are. Certainly not about the insipid new patriotism sold to us since the Pearson-Trudeau years. We refer the gentle reader to this collection at the Ontario Archive, highlighted in a post earlier this week. Canadians used to be very expressive about their patriotism, whose fulcrum was the crown. The extraordinary public displays, we don’t do anything like that today for any reason, spoke of the deep sentiment of the Canadian people. When a monarch died, especially a beloved one like George VI, they were mourning their head of the state, the symbol of themselves as a nation.”

Marxist doubt, Jihadist hate, and ideological uncertainty under the heavy hand of ever more powerful government and political correctness leave us little room to formulate the question, let alone find an answer, nor the means for stirring ourselves up to be proud of who and what we are. To hell with them.

The underlying principle of the West is resurrection; her abiding principles (despite some of her history) are truth, law, mercy, and freedom. Heading off into an all-embracing utopian gilded cage, or backwards into an all-embracing 7th Century Islamic paradise is not the answer. To remember who and what we are, is. ~

Binks

Other Binkses Linkses

~ TEH W00T! “Remembering Aqsa: Aqsa Parvez, the Ontario teenager who was murdered by her father and brother in a bid to “restore” the family’s honour (which she had besmirched by acting uppity and refusing to wear a head covering to school) finally has a fitting memorial in an appropriate spot. Robert Spencer has the details”; Aqsa Memorial and a Burning Girl; and did teh Binks mention that he’s mentioned in Ezra’s new book Shakedown? …. (w00tness)

~ OK, AS FOR Mitchieville’s “Strange, Yet Erotic Statue (Of The) Week” picture, I’d like to know who the model(s) of said lactate-o-rama were, and if they were actually pleased by the idea of being posed in public like that until said statue fell apart or was taken down. As for the previous “Half black face, half gold face woman with pointy red nipples and a fetus about to fall out of her tummy and roll down her sexy red leg” statue, it made me slightly ill. Is she having twins? Maybe a triplet fell out already? …. (mitchieville)

~ DANGED EFFING CHRISTERS! “Ontario Human Rights Commission Rejects Complaint Against Syd Ryan: Complainants Were Christian, Not Jewish.” What a effed-up system: in shariafied Saudi, a woman’s testimony is only worth 1/2 that of a man: in HRCified Soviet Canuckistan, a Christian’s testimony is 1/4 of a Jews’, and probably 1/8 that of a Muslim or multiply-hyphenated minority person. Ah well, at least with these Communistical types, they always recognize the real enemy & threat to Progressive Utopians: that pesky “Not By Bread Alone” Jesus and his rascally rabble of renegades …. (conservativeinthecloset.blog)

~ FORGETTING OURSELVES— “It’s often said that Canadians aren’t boisterous about their patriotism, not the way Americans are. Certainly not about the insipid new patriotism sold to us since the Pearson-Trudeau years. We refer the gentle reader to this collection at the Ontario Archive, highlighted in a post earlier this week. Canadians used to be very expressive about their patriotism, whose fulcrum was the crown. The extraordinary public displays, we don’t do anything like that today for any reason, spoke of the deep sentiment of the Canadian people. When a monarch died, especially a beloved one like George VI, they were mourning their head of the state, the symbol of themselves as a nation” …. (dustmybroom, archives.gov.on.ca)

~ NO SENSE OF IRONY… The Canadian Islamic Congress condemns the banning of George Galloway. Uh huh …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ ANTHONY ESOLEN: “As I’ve mentioned here before, this semester I’m taking part in a faculty seminar, with the topic of freedom. Namely, what freedom is, whether we are free, what we should be free to do, and, with distressing rarity, what our freedom might be for” …. (merecomments)

~ THE HORROR! Visible minorities now overrepresented in the public service… Racists in the federal bureaucracy continue to shut out immigrants from choice jobs. It’s the only explanation …. (rjjago)

~ GHOST FLEANESS: The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship: “The Australian Communications and Media Authority is now threatening $11,000 dollar a day fines for linking to sites on its internet blacklist. So much for my escape-to-Australia plan” …. (ghostofaflea)

~ FYI– RE: IP ID.. “Connie and Mark over at Freedominion.com lost a round to Lucy in one of the SLAPPs. It was a preliminary matter but it has now established, for those of you who didn’t know, that there is no absolute right to privacy on the net” …. (jaycurrie)

~ GOOFY CLAIMS: “Jerry Coyne – Why Evolution is True.” What-now? Theories may be likely, probable, very accurate, but they remain theories. “True” in this case implies (presumably) tha the theory of Darwinian Evolution is the best working hypothesis for how things really are. However, as any real scientist will know, the evidence-theory-testing cycle never ends, because our knowledge increases and changes over time. If in the 1950’s the atomic model of proton-electron-nucleus was said to be “True”, what that that do to all the sub-atomic science since then? Furthermore, since science itself proceeds in part by analogy, as analogy and evidence and technology develop, each theory or hypothesis will need to change. Dogmatic evolutionism is a very ugly thing …. (am770chqr)

~ ‘DIRTY JOBS’ Mike Rowe Talks About the War on Hard Work …. (americandigest)

~ ACTION DINO: “One wonders if Guelph has a mens studies program. No wait, that would be as sexist as equal hiring opportunities” …. (MaD)

~ PURE GENIUS! the CHRC’s newest pressure upon the RCMP, just in the headline: “Racial profiling to prevent racial profiling” …. (walker)

~ RIGHTS IN AMERICA— “Want to install Muslim footbaths in a public school at taxpayer expense? The ACLU will look the other way. But they won’t sit idly by and allow autistic children to get a better education if it involves vouchers!” …. (MaD)

~ RICK McGINNIS on the CBC — and being on TV himself …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ DUST MY BROOM: “Aryan Guard not originally from Alberta. They just part of that bums and creeps movement” …. (dustmybroom)

Worst POTUS Ever™

“There are other masters; masters who will do more than hold fast to the old ways; they will usher in a new era. The theorists proclaim it. Times have changed. Old institutions, devised in simpler times, are outmoded. Modern times demand modern, streamlined, efficient government- government that can sweep away the dead hand of the past, and bring forth the new dawn. A new friend of the people comes forth. He will end the babble of political parties and factions and class war He will give meaning to life; will lead a crusade against poverty, squalor, ugliness; will transform the nation into a land beautiful and shining.”

~ BLOGGER IN CHIEF?!? When in the hell does this dope get any work done? …. (cjunk.blog)

~ VIDEO: Code Pinko Teaches His Kids to Love the Troops, not the War….Just Kidding, He Tells Them They’re a Bunch of Mindless Killers …. (Wz)

~ AMERICANS: Beware the Encroaching D.C Leviathan– This is an excellent warning about Obama’s socialist tendencies and the direction he is taking the United States of America …. (conservativeinthecloset.blog)

~ MY MAJOR COMPLAINT about Obgama is that for his entire life he’s surrounded himself with incredibly questionable people … including “baby mama”. They are a motley crew of Marxists, terrorists, and Chicago machine politicians … in case you didn’t know it, that’d be the most corrupt entity in American politics …. (cjunk.blog)

~ PACKWOODINESS— The way to hell: “You know you elected the wrong guy when your President is well to the left of the Czech prime minister. Though admittedly Mirek Topolanek appears to be something of a fluke this is only because the word Europe has become synonymous with France” …. (ghostofaflea)

~ HABITAT for Humanity Breaks Down, or 2 Tales of a City …. (merecomments)

~ TOM ROESER writes at his blog arguing for what he calls the nuclear option for Notre Dame in response to the school’s controversial invitation to President Obama to give this year’s commencement address …. (merecomments)

~ SCARY MUSH— “How low will he go?: Iran’s holy ‘rollahs— quel surprise!— have rebuffed Obama’s friendly YouTube offer to put the past behind them and embark on a brand new day full of sunshine and flowers” …. (scaramouche)

~ DUELLING OBFUSCATORS: The Obama administration isn’t the only one prone to employing a nifty Orwellian euphemism now and then (“man-caused disaster” for terrorism; “Overseas Contingency Operation” for the War on Terror). Iran’s supreme holy rollah is quite taken with them, too …. (scaramouche)

~ VANDERLEUN— “Not a missive against Obama although the analogy is perfect”.. Cobb: He’s the Wiz and He Lives in Oz …. (americandigest)

~ GRADULATIONS! Three and a half minutes in which the Congress was prevented from doing anything even more stupid than this …. (americandigest)

~ THE PEOPLE’S CUBE: “The purpose of our Progressive movement is to instill enormous guilt among wealth creators, causing them to give their money to us voluntarily”; Guilt Quiz & Guilt Level Chart: Tools for the Guilted Age …. (thepeoplescube)

Jihad

~ TORONTO SUBWAY SCREAMER? Nutbar? Test-run jihadist? “I am totally shaken. On the subway on my way over to feed Kathy’s cat while they’re away at a funeral, it finally happened. Some deranged 6th Century Mohammedan lost it and began screaming ALLAHU ACKBAR, calling everyone racists, and talking about Bin Laden and rising up.” Do you know this man?; Muslim Nutjob Goes Ape on Toronto Subway …. (gotr, sda, bwc)

~ SHHHH! Bangladesh orphanage that was really a jihad training camp run by British Muslim twice acquitted of bomb plots …. (jihadwatch)

~ FOG MEN? Scaramouche– “: Was it the fog of war or the fog of leftism that compelled several IDF soldiers to claim that Israelis had engaged in war crimes during the Gaza incursion? Probably a bit of both, I’d wager” …. (scaramouche)

~ SCARAMOUCHE— “We Jews like to think that the example of the Holocaust acts as a deterrent, making it far less likely that another one could ever occur. But what if we’re completely wrong about that? What if, instead of it making another Shoah less likely to happen, it makes it more likely to happen, because it makes the unimaginable imaginable?” …. (scaramouche)

~ BENDING THE KNEE— Bosnia-Herzegovina: Entire Church Being Picked up Moved 1/2 Mile Away so it Doesn’t Offend Muslims …. (Wz)